Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says he is "sad" to see the United Kingdom leaving the European Union, but hopes to maintain close ties with the country.
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Gitanas Nausėda (born 19 May 1964) is a Lithuanian politician and the President of Lithuania, elected on 26 May 2019.
From 1982 to 1987 he studied in Vilnius University, Faculty of Industrial Economics and from 1987 to 1989 in the Faculty of Economics. From 1990 to 1992 he did a practice at the University of Mannheim in Germany under the DAAD scholarship. He defended his PhD thesis "Income Policy Under Inflation and Stagflation" in 1993. Since 2009 he is an associate professor at Vilnius University Business School.
Having completed his studies, from 1992 to 1993 he worked for the Research Institute for Economics and Privatization. From 1993 to 1994 he worked for the Lithuanian Competition Council as a head of the Financial Markets Department. From 1994 to 2000 he worked at the Bank of Lithuania, initially in the department regulating the commercial banks and later as a director of the Monetary Policy Department. From 2000 to 2008 he was a chief economist and adviser to the chairman of AB Vilniaus Bankas. From 2008 to 2018 he was the financial analyst as well as chief adviser and later the chief economist for the SEB Bankas president.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is losing his ongoing battle with President Gitanas Nauseda over Transport Minister Jaroslav Narkevic as the prime minister's popularity rating dropped further down over a month, and the president saw his public support grow, according to the latest surve...
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said one can only imagine how many generations the country and the world lost due to the Holocaust as he visited the Litvak Memorial Garden in the northwestern district of Plunge.
In response to the Curonian Lagoon pollution scandal, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has decided to donate 4,000 euros to a research institute in Klaipeda, thus symbolically returning the amount of money his election campaign received from Grigeo Group CEO Gintautas Pangonis.
Lithuanian Transport Minister Jaroslav Narkevic has denied President Gitanas Nauseda's claims that he has employed 20 people with links to his party in the transport sector.
President Gitanas Nauseda says steps were taken to ensure the security of Lithuanian soldiers in Iraq amid rising tensions in the Middle East.
An advisor to Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda in Thursday urged the government to appoint a new director of the Klaipeda State Seaport Authority.
President Gitanas Nauseda's victory in the presidential election has been named the most important event of 2019 in Lithuania, according to a BNS survey of Lithuanian journalists.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda signed on Friday next year's budget bill and accompanying legislation into law.
All laws adopted in Lithuania should be considered in terms of their possible environmental impact, President Gitanas Nauseda says.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda expects the European Commission to propose a mechanism to restrict imports from third countries "that go beyond electricity".
The issue of Transport Minister Jaroslav Narkevic's liability must be resolved, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda on Thursday did not sign into law a bill lowering the parliamentary election threshold to 3 percent for political parties and 5 percent for party coalitions.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, currently in Brussels, said on Friday he would seek to ensure significant EU funding for the implementation of goals aimed at fighting climate change.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says the Baltic countries and Poland have received Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's political approval in principle for their updated defense plan, but admits that hurdles may still arise at NATO's technical level.
Lithuania will need to spend 14 billion euros over ten years to meet its climate change commitments, President Gitanas Nauseda said on Wednesday.
The proposal of Finland, holding the rotating EU presidency, on the EU next multiannual financial framework is unacceptable for Lithuania, the country's President Gitanas Nauseda says.
Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda on Sunday hailed Kyiv's "ambition" to seek peace in eastern Ukraine but also urged to maintain international pressure on Russia over ceasefire breaches ahead of a four-way summit in Paris.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda and US President Donald Trump discussed in London on Wednesday Vilnius' plans to purchase American military equipment.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda plans to seek allied support over the threat posed by Russia at the NATO summit in London but disagreements among the American, French and Turkish leaders might undermine solidarity.
